"Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" HQ stills

The Noticing song

"The way you’re singing in your sleep.The way you look before you leap.The strange illusions that you keep. You don’t know But I’m noticing.The way your touch turns into arcs.The way you slide into the dark.The beating of my open heart.You don’t know But I’m noticing".

"March Eighteenth" -provisional title of the noticing song Nick wrote in "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist".

Angelic baby faces

"Ellen Page has this amazing face. There’s something about her expression that looks hurt but hopeful at the same time. Her exchange with Vanessa at the mall, and later with her dad, just break your heart.Michael Cera is good too. Something about the way he’s lit in this movie makes him look like some sort of angel in jogging shorts".
Source: javaness74.blogspot.com

"New York I love you"

"Directed by Faith Akin, Yvan Attal, Alan Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Scarlett Johnansson, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Martson, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Jiang Wen and Andrey Zvyaginstev

Cast:
Robin Wright Penn, Carlos Acosta, Isabelle Adjani, Kevin Bacon, Justin Bartha, Rachel Bilson, James Caan, Orlando Bloom, Hayden Christiansen, Bradley Cooper, Chris Cooper, Taylor Geare, Ethan Hawke, Irrfan Khan, Cloris Leachman, Drea de Matteo, Emilie Ohana, Natalie Portman, Maggie Q, Shu Qi, Olivia Thirlby, Eli Wallach, Saul Williams, Anton Yelchin and Ugur Yücel.

Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2009
Filming Dates Start Date: February 2008 End Date: April 2008
Filming locations: New York City, New York, USA
Budget: $14,000,000 (estimated)
Plot: An anthology film joining several love stories set in one of the most loved cities of the world, New York".
Source: www.dailymotion.com

RDJ and Tina Fey - Master Mind

"I can hardly think of an actorly pairing that would get my geekiness a tingling as much as Robert Downey, Jr. and Tina Fey. That's just maybe two of my five favorite people right now (and keep in mind that I'm on that list somewhere too). Lucky for me, Hollywood is still using high frequency radio waves to tap into my thoughts and a Robert Downey, Jr./Tina Fey pairing is in the works. RDJ and Fey are in talks to voice the lead characters in the upcoming DreamWorks animated film MASTER MIND. The film would follow a supervillain (Downey, Jr.) who lapses into an existential crisis after he accidentally kills his arch nemesis. It's unclear what character Fey would be voicing at this point. The movie would reunite RDJ with his TROPIC THUNDER pal Ben Stiller, who's producing the movie for DWA. DreamWorks currently has MASTER MIND set for a fall 2010 release and the film is being prepped in 3-D".
Extra Tidbit: Downey, Jr.'s son is a huge fan of "Family Guy" so RDJ recorded a character for an episode in 2006".
Source: www.joblo.com

Facebook Movie

"Aaron Sorkin, a man whose discomfort with the Internet goes way, way back to the days he got angry at the Television Without Pity message boards, is writing a movie about the founding of Facebook. Sorkin has created a Facebook group for "Aaron Sorkin & the Facebook Movie" on which Sorkin (or is it his assistant?) (or is it someone pretending to be his assistant?) writes:

I've just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years.)

Facebook Sorkin seems pretty legit: He's answering questions about his life and work, posting photos of himself playing tennis, cracking Sorkin-y jokes. But is it real? Over on the message boards, a collection of journalists are leaving plaintive requests for someone, anyone, official to contact them.

But in an e-mail to Vulture, producer (and former Vulture boss) Scott Rudin has confirmed that this is indeed Sorkin, and that Sorkin is indeed writing a Facebook movie for Sony.

What on earth will Sorkin's Facebook movie be like? We guess we're glad he's learning what Facebook is before he writes it, although we're sad he'll never know the glory that was Scrabulous. And how will the master of guys walking down hallways and talking write scenes of guys IMing each other for hours?"

Source: nymag.com

"Sex Drive" Trailer

"Time for some red band action (boom-chicka-wah-wah) from the upcoming teen sex comedy, Sex Drive. Also check out two exclusive stills featuring Seth Green as an Amish mechanic and James Marsden in the strangest role of his career to date!

In the grand tradition of '80s road comedy The Sure Thing and all things National Lampoon, Sex Drive tells the tale of one horny teenager named Ian (Josh Zuckerman) who, desperate to lose his virginity before college classes begin, embarks on an interstate quest to meet the girl of his dreams -- the sexy, mysterious Ms. Tasty, whom he met over the Internet. Along for the ride are his friend-who's-a-girl, Felicia (Amanda Crew) and his BFF, Lance (Clark Duke), but hot on his trail is his mean-tempered older brother (James Marsden), who really wants his prized vintage Pontiac GTO back. We've also got two exclusive stills from the film right here, featuring Lance (Clark Duke) and his Amish homie Ezekial (Seth Green), and a closer look at hyper-masculine meathead Rex (James Marsden, in a fearless, driven performance).
Source: www.rottentomatoes.com

"Be my angel" (Mazzy Star)

Michael Cera ("Be my angel")

Peter Sarsgaard in "The Seagull"

"Peter Sarsgaard, who steps into Chekhov’s The Seagull this fall as Trigorin, the amoral writer who drives one character to ruin and another to suicide, is talking about his visit to a communal retreat in California not too long ago. He was doing research for “something I’ve been writing for a long time”—something “like a screenplay.” He came across a mission statement for the group’s school that instructed teachers, when breaking up a fight, to ask the victim a question they’d normally put to a bully: “Why you?”

It’s a question, implying that victims share responsibility, that Sarsgaard would like to ask Chekhov’s characters. “Nina, why you?” he asks, referring to the young ingénue corrupted by Trigorin, in a warm but slightly sinister Waspy drawl reminiscent of John Malkovich. “Does everything just happen to you, or do you make things happen in your life?” Trigorin, Sarsgaard insists, is “doing exactly what he wants. Some people pursue things they think they’re interested in, and they’re actually not. They’re living in a dream world.”
In a way, Sarsgaard, 37, is an exemplar of anti-ambitionism. He lives pretty quietly, in Brooklyn, with (as everyone knows) Maggie Gyllenhaal and their nearly 2-year-old daughter. He’s never tried to carry a blockbuster, saying “in order to be the lead in a $100 million movie, you have to want to be.” He concedes that The Dark Knight, in which his wife co-starred, is an exception: “You see Heath Ledger’s performance and you go, well, there’s somebody who shows that it’s possible to be an enormously amazing actor in the middle of a franchise.” Yes, but … “I see that movie and I see a man who is happy acting—it looks like he’s tap-dancing. The part does not destroy the actor, ever, if they’re good. That had absolutely nothing to do with what happened to him.”

Sarsgaard, meanwhile, likes playing his characters off to the side: the gung-ho sniper in Jarhead, the canny editor in Shattered Glass, the gravedigger in Garden State, the charismatic foil in the forthcoming Mysteries of Pittsburgh. He got the part of Trigorin, his first on Broadway, after co-starring in a Nick Hornby movie with Carey Mulligan, who is playing the victimized Nina. Mulligan had asked him to recommend possible Trigorins, which he did—whereupon director Ian Rickson tossed out Sarsgaard’s list and hired the list-maker, who is quick to add that he had not pulled a Cheney and suggested his own name. Rickson says he aimed to cast a younger and more energetic actor than is customary. “The virility of Trigorin, and his attachment to nature, his sexuality, his vibrancy, I feel is a really important thing,” he says. “Young actors who are very masculine and have that soulfulness are very hard to find.”


It’s a good thing Rickson is open to new interpretations, because while Trigorin comes off on the page as alternately oblivious, self-absorbed, and manipulative, Sarsgaard sees him much the way he sees himself: flexible, open, disdainful of convention. “I guess I have a tendency to take on a lot of orphans,” he says. “I feel like I’m protecting people—protecting maybe parts of myself that I think are valid, and that people could judge.”
Source: nymag.com

Too upset to talk

"Jake Gyllenhaal, who had reportedly been worried about best friend Heath Ledger’s bouts with depression, is so upset about Ledger’s death that he is unable to talk to the media.
Jake, who is the godfather of Heath’s two year old daughter Matilda, is currently in New Mexico filimg Brothers with actor Tobey Maguire".
Source: www.popcrunch.com

Songs lists

My iTunes Song List, Open it in iTunes!

Well, these aren't my favourite songs (not all of them) but they are the last ones I've been listening to in iTunes. I think maybe one of the reasons I'm interested in watching the upcoming film "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" is that tells the story of my music-imbued adolescence, I read the book by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan a few times and it's a giddy experience which, from the distance we have as more adult netizens it turns into a time-travel pill we want to swallow again (with straight-edge drinks). I bet almost every girl/woman from Weirdland played her game with a sensitive musician in their teens. I know I did.
I dated a local musician who played the guitar in a band -one of his favourite bands were The Ramones- and he was blonde, too, like Michael Cera. If sometimes I come off slightly obsessed with characters like Juno, Norah, etc. is because I had similar experiences and I was this self-assured, self-destructive,
partially naïve teenager. Who dated a sensitive dorky blonde guitarist in an indie band. And who made mistakes that were abandoned inside an infinite mixtapes dumpster in Alternia.

Nick & Norah's make-out

17. NICK

"I have never, ever felt such desire. She takes off the belt, lets it drop to the floor. Then she unbuttons the top button of my jeans—only the top button. And I reach over to her jeans and unbutton the top button—only the top button. And I ask it again—“Are you okay?” And this time she says yes. She says she’s more than okay. We kiss like it’s a form of clasping. It’s not like it was in the club, when it was like she was proving something. We have nothing to prove now, nothing except that we’re not afraid. That we’re not going to think too much, or stop too much, or go too much. Her hand traces down the zipper line and I say, “Slow.” Because this is not a rush. This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening. And this is ours".
18. NORAH

"When did my life get so good? Was it when I agreed with a kiss to be Nick’s five-minute girlfriend, or when I realized frigid was a choice rather than a truth? This ice room is so very cold. Nick is so very hot. His heat—my heat—our heat—almost makes me forget I am still wet from the downpour, seeking refuge in the darkened ice room of a fucking Marriott with the Pepsi sign lit up, and I am without a doubt really into Nick because I am a Coke drinker, I mean I can take the Pepsi Challenge and fucking smell the difference without bothering to distinguish the two tastes in my mouth. Mmmmmm, tastes. His lips taste so good, his moist skin tastes so good, everything about him is just delicious".

Copyright © 2005 by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan.

"Candy" reviews and video

"For all its depiction of a descent into drug addiction, "Candy'' is filled with surprisingly sweet moments and goes down more easily than seems possible given the subject matter.

As in "Leaving Las Vegas,'' there's a love story to divert you.
Dan begins a passionate romance with a painter, Candy (Abbie Cornish, an Australian actress touted as the next Nicole Kidman as much for her talent as her luscious looks). They're kids at heart, a point emphasized in an exhilarating opening scene of the two whirling around and around on an amusement park ride. They look as if they never want to stop.Heath and Cornish bring eye-popping realism to their sex scenes.Eager to help with the family finances, Dan considers becoming a male hooker but decides he would be "hopeless with the gay stuff" -- a line that whether intentionally or not will get a laugh out of anyone who saw "Brokeback Mountain".

Ledger is mesmerizing in a scene where Dan pulls off a white-collar crime by going to a bank with a stolen ID and charming a cashier into giving him more than $2,000. Hyped up, he keeps repeating to himself, "I'm rolling,'' like a mantra". Source: www.sfgate.com
"Cornish, Kidman-esque in her elusive, look-but-don't-touch allure, may have the title role here, but Ledger, long-haired and so soft-looking you'd think he was shot slightly out of focus, is the movie's real eye candy. Armfield's colorful sets keep things on the implausibly cheery side of surreal until the requisite withdrawal scene, which uses nothing more than a room-sized mattress and a pathetically old TV set as props, the quivering junkies left to their own devices. Any drug movie's effectiveness can be measured by the strength of its detox, and Candy doesn't sweeten the cold turkey. Still, it's a downward spiral from there in more ways than one. Never mind the neo-psychedelic-pop soundtrack and occasional double-vision cinematography: Dope just can't account for the film's fried brain cells".
Source: www.villagevoice.com

"CANDY" FINAL SCENE:

Abbie Cornish and Jake?

"Abbie Cornish is already dating Reese Witherspoon’s ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe, but soon may also be spending a lot of time with Reese’s current squeeze, Jake Gyllenhaal.

An insider tells In Touch that producers on Jake’s next movie are considering Abbie as his leading lady. The sci-fi flick is about an expedition to the moon to start a lunar colony and is due out in 2010.

“This is one of those only-in-Hollywood situations,” the insider says. “It could work out as long as Reese doesn’t visit Jake on the set.”

Can we say a-w-k-w-a-r-d?
Souce: JustJared.buzznet.com

Ryan and Rachel

"Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams Together Again?
The picture perfect “Notebook” couple is officially back together again!

Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams were spotted kissing and hugging in Toronto, Canada on Thursday morning.

The couple couldn’t keep their hands off each another while enjoying breakfast together at a diner near Rachel’s home. Both Ryan, 27, and Rachel, 31, fed each other, cuddled and held hands before and after breakfast. Rachel even spent most of breakfast in Ryan’s lap! Sizzle. Sizzle. Sizzle.

This reunion comes weeks after the couple spent time together at Hollywood’s Green Door".
Source: justjared.buzznet.com

Gwyneth Paltrow in Tod's campaign

Gwyneth Paltrow in Tod's campaign.Watch "Behind the scenes" at www.tods.com

Kissing wattage

"The wattage goes way up as two of the bright lights of contemporary writing for teens come together for an incandescent he said/she said night of storytelling... There's perfectly captured teen music-geek talk and delicious stuff about kissing and what lies beyond. Sensual and full of texture." - Kirkus Reviews.
Source: www.randomhouse.com
Emmy Rossum kissing Jake in "The day after tomorrow" (2004).